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yes, that is great news, the problem I have just discovered now is that you must have an Intel Mac, which essentially means, quite ironically I believe, if you have this type of Mac, you could be running Boot Camp/Windows and playing on the PC side.....if you have an older version Mac - non-Intel chip, and can't run any version of the Mac OS above Tiger, like my friend...you are once again not allowed in the "members only club". What's the point for an existing Mac owner, and why wouldn't you just use Boot Camp with your Intel chip Mac and play back on the PC side, like I do? They should have been able to pull this off without Intel based Macs...I can sympathize with the idea of a digital download that doesn't discriminate between a mac or pc account, but Intel-based is really for NEW mac users. Unfortunate for my friend who can't afford the latest Mac and manages to run WoW: Wrath of the Lich King, on the same non-Intel mac laptop, even though Blizzard says its against the recommended requirements to play...he plays WoW, with all 3 expansions every night. Blizzard manages the cross-platform deal with their game without steep requirements....and you wonder why their user base world-wide is so enormous. This could be a reason why you will only get new affluent Mac purchasers as your new user cross-platform-base.
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The reason WoW can be played on the lower end platform your friend uses is because their graphics don't go for the "photo-realism" effect that CoX attempts. So naturally, CoX is going to need a bit steeper system requirements if you want to play to its full extent with no lagging.
With regards to the whole bootcamp/intel-based mac issue, Intel based macs certainly aren't new. I have an Intel based iMac thats nearly 2 years old, on which I've been playing CoH through bootcamp for almost as long. 2 years is hardly "new" in the computer world. And seeing most macs (if not all; I'm not up on all the different systems they offer yet) will always come stock with intel inside, I don't see the problem in limiting the Mac client to intel based macs. I don't know anybody else that plays CoH, but as a visual arts student, 99% of the people I know and work with all use mac, and EVERY one of them is intel-based.
And you ask, "why don't we just play the PC client through bootcamp?" 2 major reasons - First off, bootcamp doesn't give you a free version of Windows. I got stuck paying about $200 for that retarded OS just so I could run a handful of programs (because I didn't think at the time to get a pirated copy, and of course now EVERYTHING I use it for has Mac versions). Secondly, I don't know about you, but EVERYTHING runs slower and more laggy on Windows through bootcamp. And its not a bootcamp or mac issue; everything runs the same way it does on any other PC I've ever used. The fact is, every Mac OS I've ever had the pleasure of using runs smoother and faster than even the newest of Window's OS's.
